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Anheuser-Busch transitioning 30% of dedicated fleet to renewable natural gas

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In 2014 and 2015, Anheuser-Busch converted 160 diesel-fueled trucks in Houston and St. Louis to fleets powered by Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) engines. Anheuser-Busch is transitioning more than 180 trucks—representing approximately 30% of its dedicated fleet—to Renewable Natural Gas (RNG).

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DARPA awards WUSTL researcher $860,000 to engineer E. coli to produce gasoline-range molecules

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Fuzhong Zhang, assistant professor of energy, environmental & chemical engineering at Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL) a Young Faculty Award worth $860,000 to engineer the bacterium Escherichia coli to produce gasoline-range molecules. Once we engineer it, it will produce chemicals very efficiently.

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7 Scholarships Exclusively for Women Studying Engineering

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Employment in science, technology, engineering, and math fields is still disproportionately dominated by men, especially in engineering and math. Here is a look at some engineering scholarships being offered exclusively for girls and women. IEEE Women in Engineering scholarships. WIE offers three grants. The Frances B.

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WUSTL team develops high-power direct borohydride fuel cells; double the voltage of conventional H2 fuel cells

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Engineers at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL) have developed high-power direct borohydride fuel cells (DBFC) that operate at double the voltage of conventional PEM hydrogen fuel cells. The approach is broadly applicable to other classes of liquid/liquid fuel cells.

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WUSTL researchers demonstrate solar-panel-powered microbial electrosynthesis to produce n-butanol from light, CO2 and power

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Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have discovered a new way to train microbes to make n -butanol. The first author of the study is Wei Bai, a PhD graduate of McKelvey Engineering’s Department of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering.

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Volvo Trucks Customer QCD orders 30 more VNR Electric trucks for Southern California fleet

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A modular design approach using pre-engineered components, which accelerates the project construction and installation process, minimizes interruption to QCD fleet operations and makes it easy and affordable to scale as more EVs are added to QCD’s fleet. Located in the St.

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NSF awards UIC $1.44M to discover new 2D materials for better batteries

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Amin Salehi-Khojin, assistant professor of mechanical and industrial engineering, and Robert Klie, professor of physics, want to not only improve the performance of 2D materials—molybdenum disulfide is a promising candidate, they believe—in a battery but to understand how they function.

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